Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions
Exploring Endless Compositions
A course by Scott Biersack , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Exploring Endless Compositions
Overview
“You'll learn to explore drawing various possible compositions for a phrase. This is the concepting stage. The more ideas, the better! Next, I'll briefly flesh out the overall letterform styles while exploring possible shapes, arcs, bouncing baselines, etc., to create a cohesive composition/type lockup. ”
In this video lesson Scott Biersack addresses the topic: Exploring Endless Compositions, which is part of the Domestika online course: Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions. Learn the fundamentals of hand-lettering to create custom type designs that combine spacing, composition, color, and texture for a strong visual impact.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the previous lesson, we covered the mood board. We have our phrases and lyrics in front of you. And now in this lesson, we're going to explore endless compositions. Let's get to it. All right, guys, so in the last lesson, we gathered our sources of inspiration, which you see here in front of me. and we finalize our selected phrase. So you know what you're going to draw, And so now it's actually time to start the drawing process. But right before we do that, let's take a second to sort of look at the inspiration we found and sort of pick apart what it is we're liking, what it is we might ...”
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Course summary for: Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions
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Branding & Identity, Digital Lettering, Graphic Design, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Logo Design, Motion Graphics, Traditional illustration

Scott Biersack
A course by Scott Biersack
Scott Biersack, also known as youbringfire, is a graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer specialized in hand-lettering. Although he’s been drawing for as long as he can remember, his professional journey really kicked off in 2013 with Project365, in which he shared a new lettering creation on social media every day for a year. It was this online visibility that launched his freelance career into what it is today.
With his colorful palettes and playful style, he provides clients with custom pieces for advertising campaigns, social-media content, branding projects, animations, and much more. He is constantly exploring new mediums, methodologies, and ideas to overcome boundaries. Throughout his career, he’s collaborated with names like Adobe, Facebook, Snapchat, and Oakley as well as received awards from Communications Arts, Print Magazine, and The Type Directors Club.
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